contemporary artists
Holownia, Thaddeus

THADDEUS HOLOWNIA (Canadian, b. England 1949)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

  • Anatomy Lesson, Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • Walden Pond Revisited, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • Laminae, Collins Lefebvre Stoneberger Fine Art, Westmount, QC; Galerie 12, Moncton, NB; Ingrid Mueller Art and Concepts, Fredericton, NB; Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, NB

2005

  • Radio Canada International Portfolio, Hollinger Collins Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC; Fog Forest Gallery, Sackville NB

2004

  • Walden Pond Revisited, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON Walden Pond Revisited, Tsongas Gallery, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, MA

2003

  • Trout River Gulch, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, NF

2001

  • Anatomy of a Pipeline, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON Ova Aves, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2000

  • Jolicure Pond, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

1998

  • Our City, Our Walls, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

1996

  • Headlighting: James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, NF Ironworks, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON 1995

  • Rockland Bridge, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

1993

  • Sable Island, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON

1990

  • Headlighting, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

1988

  • Maritime Landscapes: 1977-87, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

1984

  • St. John’s Wide View, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

1979

  • East – West Portfolio, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

Selected Solo Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions

2007

  • The Terra Nova Suite, Art Gallery of Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, ON

2006-2007

  • The Terra Nova Suite, The Rooms, The Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

2005-2006

  • Station: Irving Architectural Landscapes, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

2003

  • Anatomy of a Pipeline, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, NB Extended Vision, tour: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON; McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg ON; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

2000

  • Rockland Bridge and Ironworks, City of Saint John Gallery, NB

1998

  • Architecture, Annapolis Royal Art Centre, NS Rockland Bridge, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS

1995

  • Sable Island, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB

1992

  • Headlighting, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK

1990

  • Headlighting, Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

1982-1986

  • Dykelands, McCord Museum, Montreal, PQ Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, PEI

1984

  • Headlighting I and II, University of Moncton, Moncton, NS

1978

  • Recent Discoveries, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, NB

1976

-Headlighting, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, NB

1975

  • Urban Landscapes, University of Guelph, ON

Selected Group Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions

2006

  • Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography: Jack Shainman Gallery, NY Exhibit A: Photography from Atlantic Canada, Art, Toronto, ON

2004-2005

  • Broken Ground: Canadian Photographs from the New World, tour: Galerie Vaclav Spala, Prague; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON

  • Sable Island Photographs, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

2003

  • Trout River Gulch, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON

2001-2002

  • Monet’s Legacy: Series - Order and Obsession, Hamburger, Kunsthalle, Germany
  • Between the Light and Shadow: Photographs and Prints from the Gary Bettis Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

2000-2001

  • Drawing with Light, tour: Calgary Science Centre, Calgary, AB; The Art Gallery Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; CMCP, Ottawa, ON

1996

  • CMCP, Ottawa, ON

1992

  • Beau, CMCP, Ottawa, ON

1990-92

  • Children in Photography: 150 Years, tour: Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, QC; Vancouver Museum, BC; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, BC The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers, tour: McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, ON

1987

  • 10 Ways of Looking at Landscapes, The Watson Gallery, Houston, TX

1986

  • Photo Perspectives, Presentation House, Vancouver, BC The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

1978

  • Four Large Format Artists, National Film Board, Ottawa, ON

1976

  • Holography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1975

  • Exposure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

1974

  • 100 Years of Photography, Nice, France

Selected Museum and Public Collections

  • American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, NY
  • Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
  • Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, QC
  • Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
  • Columbia University, New York, NY
  • International Centre of Photography, New York, NY
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
  • Musée de la Photographie, Belgium
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  • National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  • Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  • Yale University Art of the Book Collection, New Haven, CT

Selected Bibliography

2007

  • Callahan, Mark, “METAMORPHOSIS: Thaddeus Holownia’s Newfoundland”, Canadian Notes and Queries #71, p. 65 - 69

2006

  • Carte Blanche: A compendium of Canadian photographers, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, p. 75
  • Gary Michael Dault, “Arborealis”, CV Ciel Variable 71, p. 41

2005

  • McCabe, Shauna, “STATION”, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, P.E.I, 2005
  • Steeves, Andrew and Holownia, Thaddeus, Walden Pond Revisited, designed by Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2004

2004

  • “Walden Pond Revisited,” visual feature, The Walrus, July - Aug, 2004
  • Cousineau-Levine, Penny, “Faking Death”, McGill Queen University Press, 2004

2003

  • Enright, Robert, Anatomy of a Pipeline, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, 2003

2002

  • Enright, Robert, “The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia,” Border Crossings, 2002

  • Tombs, Robert, “Inside the Eye of The Newfoundland Project, Thaddeus Holownia’s Coney Island of the Mind,” Arts Atlantic, Summer 2002

2000

  • Gopnik, Blake, “Thaddeus Holownia’s uses of beauty,” The Globe and Mail, Feb 12, 2000 MacKay, Gillian, “Thaddeus Holownia at Jane Corkin,” The Globe and Mail, Mar 11, 2000

1998

  • Langford, Barbara, “The Banquet Years,” Border Crossings, 1998
  • Extended Vision: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia 1975-1997, CMCP, ON, 1998

1995

  • Holownia, Thaddeus and Sanger, Peter, Ironworks, Anchorage Press, Jolicure, NB

1994

  • Tombs, Robert, “Thaddeus Holownia,” C Magazine, Winter 1994

1992

  • Beau, CMCP, Ottawa, ON, 1992

1991

  • Eight Landscape Photographers, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, ON, 1991 Cousineau, Penny, Headlighting, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1991

1988

  • Vincent, Isabelle, “Unique Installation Shines Headlights on the Car as Icon,” The Globe and Mail, April 21, 1990 Cousineau, Penny, “Water, Earth and Air,” Canadian Art, Vol. 7, No. 4, Toronto, ON, 1990

1988

  • Dykelands, with poems by Douglas Lochhead, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, QC, 1989. Published as a trade edition with a special signed and numbered edition of 150. Thurston, Harry, “The Devil’s Work is an Arc of Sand,” Audubon Magazine, March Issue, New York, NY, 1989
  • Malloy, Patricia, “Thaddeus Holownia Maritime Images,” Arts Atlantic, Issue 32, Fall 1988

1987

  • People and Place, Acadiensis Press/Mount Allison University, Fredericton, NB, 1987

1986

  • Bentley Mays, John, “Photos Capture Stark Beauty of Tantramar,” The Globe and Mail, January 16, 1986

1985

  • Lean, Cheryl and Metson, Graham, “Dykelands: Thaddeus Holownia,” Arts Atlantic, Issue 21, 1985

1984

  • Hammock, Virgil, “La Vision Tranquille de Thaddeus Holownia,” Vie des Arts, Issue 116, Fall 1984 Barnard, Elissa, “Dykelands: Breathless in Scope, Intimate in Detail,”Halifax Chronicle-Herald, June 18, 1984 Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of the National Film Board, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, AB, 1984

1981

  • McLelland & Stewart, Twelve Canadians, Contemporary Canadian Photography, Toronto, ON, 1981

Commissioned Work

1999

  • Motion, photographic commission for new music group, Fredericton, NB

1998

  • New Brunswick Highway Landscape Stamp, Canada Post, Ottawa, ON

1990

  • On Site, CMCP, Ottawa, ON

1988

  • Large Aeolian Piano, Sound Symposium, St. John’s, NF, sound sculpture

Selected Awards

2006

  • Paul Paré Medal of Excellence Award, Mount Allison University

2002

  • Strathbutler Award, Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation, Saint John, NB

2001

  • Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States

2001-2000

  • Paul Paré Medal of Excellence Award, Mount Allison University

2000

  • Arts 2000 Jury Award for Ironworks book, Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition, Stratford Gallery, ON

1998

  • Paul Paré Medal of Excellence Award, Mount Allison University

1978-1997

  • Canada Council Grants

1987

  • Crake Research Foundation

1983-81

  • Marjorie Young Bell Research Fund

1982

  • SSHRC Research Grant

1976-75

  • Ontario Arts Council